What Do I Really Want? : To be rapt in reverence
The question to be constantly asked in decision making is ‘what do I really want?’ Deep down, that’s what God wants too…. Our deepest desires are obscured by pride, fears. ambitions and attachments to money, honor, security and a host of things. The process of discernment is essentially a process of stripping away these false desires and finding the desires at the core of our selves.
J. Michael Sparough SJ
“I AM the heart of your desire
you are the heart of mine
One faithful heart
One humble want,” declares Holy One.
At the bottom of the bottom
of my hidden heart place
longing lingers
restlessness reigns
emptiness exclaims
There is something more
than any thing
something that is
no thing
so sublime it makes me sing
My beautiful home
successful career
grand clothes, good friends, rare books
bore holes in my hands
slumped in discontented
But, the utter still of morning
blanketed in snow
bowed before un-risen sun
stands me at the edge of ever
rapt in reverence
This is what I really want
to know and hold
inhabit wholly
but, sun rise breaks the still
and I am blinded by
10,000 flapping things
There is something more
than any thing
something that is
no thing
so sublime it makes me sing
“I AM the heart of your desire
you are the heart of mine
One faithful heart
One humble want,” declares Holy One.
Poem by Debra Asis
J. Michael Sparough SJ’s quote is found in to today’s selection in An Ignatian Book of Days by Jim Manney, a series of daily reflections from the Spiritual Wisdom of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Throughout the book we hear the voices of St. Ignatius as well as many great thinkers and writers, long gone and present day, each uniquely revealing the way of finding God in all things.And that is my intention; to find God/Divine Presence/Ultimate Reality in whatever presents itself to me each day in 2024.
Each day I read, reflect and write on the selection, hoping to articulate the ways in which I come to know God/Divine Presence/Ultimate Reality via personal experience, impelled by the leading of my inner life.
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All words are generated by grace and the grit of a real human being,
Debra Asis
